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| - November Challenge - 4/30
I have an aversion to Soy "Chick*n."
What's that you say?
"But it tastes like chicken! So it tastes like everything!"
"Soy Chick*n and Soy Pork are the same things!"
"What's wrong with you! You already eat grass, just eat the damn Soy Chick*n and STFU."
Many vegetarians (unless they were raised in a veg household), start the lifestyle by giving up red meat. For some it's pork. Then they give up poultry, and then finally, seafood. Then, they are either perfectly happy in Ovo-Lacto land, or they cross in to Veganism.
But for me, the journey started when I was 9 and I walked in on my Mom in the kitchen with a cluck-cluck. Prior to this encounter, all my experiences with meat involved it being cooked already or feather-free, headless and wrapped in plastic. The knowledge that what was now in my soup bowl had hours before, been happily clucking away in a pen somewhere in town was too much for me and I never ate chicken again. It was a gradual process of elimination from there, and I've been Vegan for many, many years.
I don't mind faux meats, but for some reason, I cannot and will not put Soy Chick*n in my mouth. Maybe because it does taste too much like the real thing. Maybe because for so many years, my Grandma would try to trick me in to eating Chicken by telling me it was Soy Chicken.
TL;DR, I came to Le's with a grumbly belly and I saw that their only Vegan option (with protein) available was a Soy Chick*n sub.
*I don't count the "veggie sub" as a second option, because while technically it is, it's the cop-out option you could get anywhere else. Like Subway. Or Quizno's. Or every other stall at the market. I'm not an asshole that thinks everyone should cater to me, but I also don't expect salad on bread to fill me up for lunch.*
I told myself this was mind over matter and I should just suck it up and try it, tell myself it was Soy Pork and eat it because I was hungry and had a busy day ahead.
JUST DO IT!
So I did. The sub was pretty ordinary, and the bread tasted like day-old baguette, but you know what? I ate Soy Chick*n and liked it. It wasn't bad. The service here is pretty friendly, lots of smiling faces, and very efficient. The faux meat comes from a supplier a few stalls away from them, and the rest of that supplier's offerings are pretty tasty as well.
I might come back. Maybe. I should also point out that on top of my aversion to Soy Chick*n being an issue for me, the lady handed me a REAL CHICKEN sub, and almost let me walk away with it until the other lady working there pointed out her mistake because mine was still in the toaster.
(It's Soy Pork, soy pork, soy pork...)
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